Deceit, Desire, and the Novel. René Girard

1967 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 54-54
Author(s):  
Ralph Harper
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

scholarly journals Scapegoating in ‘The Stranger’ By Albert Camus

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-96
Author(s):  
Diana-Eugenia Panait-Ioncică
Keyword(s):  
Albert Camus ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Stranger

Abstract The present paper intends to discuss the amount to which scapegoating (as understood by René Girard in ‘The Scapegoat’) can be applied to Camus’s novel ‘The Stranger’. While issues arise when we are trying to apply Girard’s definition of scapegoating to the famous novel by Camus, this paper shall try to prove that they are only apparent issues, and that the novel is a perfect illustration of Girard’s theory.

scholarly journals ‘Menzogna romantica’ e ‘sortilegio romanzesco’

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piermario Vescovo
Keyword(s):  
War Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Post War

This contribution attempts to match the dimensions of the ‘menzogna and sortilegio’ of Elsa Morante’s novel, and above all its construction in relation to the novel of the bourgeois epic of the previous century, those of the ‘mensonge romantique’ and ‘verité romanesque’ of René Girard, and therefore of describe the geometries of mimetic desire that build the plot of this huge debut in European post-war literature.

scholarly journals The influence of J.-P. Sartre’s philosophy on the mimetic theory of R. Girard

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-13
Author(s):  
Maxim V. Gafurov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Cartesian Dualism ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Philosophical Thought ◽  
Literary Structure ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard

Certainly Sartre had an enormous influence on the subsequent philosophical thought, primarily in France. Rene Girard did not ignore this thinker either. In this article we will look at the influence of Sartre’s philosophy on the formation of Rene Girard’s mimetic theory. Already in his early work, “Deceit, Desire and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure”, Rene Girard repeatedly refers to the work of Sartre, explaining how his work can be considered in the context of mimetic theory. Further, in an interview with Michel Treger in 1992, Girard controversially proposes to examine the existential-phenomenological constructions of Sartre by means of mimetic theory, putting forward his vision and critical view on overcoming the Cartesian dualism that Girard finds in Sartre’s philosophy. The author of the article considers the convergence of the mimetic theory of R. Girard with some provisions of the work by J.-P. Sartre, turning to one of the main philosophical works of J.-P. Sartre “Being and Nothingness”, which also influenced the early work of R. Girard. It should be noted that J.-P. Sartre does not offer a system describing the mechanisms of mimetic desire. But through the prism of mimetic theory we can see certain philosophical intuitions that reveal to us the nature of mimetic desires in the works of Sartre.

Mimetic Desire in Dostoevsky’s The Idiot with Continual Reference to René Girard

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-95
Author(s):  
Denis Zhernokleyev
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Of Interest ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Desire ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Principal Character ◽  
Love Triangle

It is common to see Myshkin, the principal character of Dostoevsky’s The Idiot, as a failed lover and a compassionate saintly figure, who gets entangled in a love triangle but cannot embody it. This paper challenges such a view and argues that Myshkin fully incarnates the violent dynamic of desire that governs the novel. With the help of René Girard’s notion of mimetic desire, the paper explores Myshkin’s relationship with Rogozhin as erotic rivalry. Instead of seeing the two characters as autonomous entities, it is suggested that they should be viewed as doubles, as two poles of the same consciousness. On this view, Myshkin’s compassion and Rogozhin’s lust become two different manifestations of the same desire, united by a conflict of interest, which drives the love triangle towards a violent resolution.

scholarly journals FRATRICIDE OR PATRICIDE –THE CRISIS OF PATRIARCHY IN THE NOVELS ĐUKA BEGOVIĆBY IVAN KOZARAC AND ZEMJABY ELIN PELIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-111
Author(s):  
Marijana Bijelić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Capitalist Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Mimetic Theory ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Structural Positions

Sincethe plots of the novels Đuka Begovićand Zemja(Land) by Elin Pelin are constructed around the ancient mythical murder motifs of patricide and fratricide, this analysis relies on mimetic theory by Rene Girard that is also constructed as a theoretical explanation of the afore mentioned mythical murders. Although Girard denies libidinal and object-directed causation of desire, in his polemics with the Freudian model of the libidinal desire Girard implies that there is a privileged object of desire in the patriarchal order –i.e. women because the father is the natural model for the son, and men’s desire for women is interindividually directed and intensified. Money and some other types of property are the privileged objects in a capitalist society –since thedesires of all members of the society are concentrated around them. The crisis of patriarchal order in Đuka Begovićcauses the loss of degree and the elevation of the structural positions of the father and the son, which then becomes the motive for Đuka’spatricide. On the other hand, the idealization and the persevered authority of the older brother causes Enjo’s repentance and the semi-establishing of the patriarchal order in the novel Zemja. The idealized older brother in the Pelin’s novel preserves thefunction of the paternal authority, and the father in Kozarac’s novel loses his authority and degree so he functions as the rival brother within the framework of the Girardian mimetic theory.

Le choix de Ponce Pilate, entre le sacré et le profane

2013 ◽  
pp. 124-132
Author(s):  
Sara Tongiani
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Universe

At the beginning of The Man and the Sacred (1939) Roger Caillois affirmed that “every religious conception of the universe implies that there is a distinction between the sacred and the profane”. Caillois discussed the theme of the sacred throughout his life, in several essays, articles and lectures. In 1961, Caillois wrote Pontius Pilate, a brief novel in which he explored the dilemma of the governor of Judea. For the first time, Caillois changed genre. The author escaped the theme of the sacred by way of the novel. The purpose of this paper is to show how the theme of the sacred leads to a comparison between the thought of Caillois, the theories of the College of Sociology, and the theme of The Scapegoat by René Girard.

scholarly journals Identiteit en narratieven in Dit zijn de namen van Tommy Wieringa

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 219-227
Author(s):  
Sonya Dimitrova
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dynamic Nature ◽  
Midlife Crisis ◽  
Rene Girard ◽  
René Girard ◽  
Scapegoat Mechanism ◽  
The One ◽  
Psychoanalytic Theories

Identity and narratives in Dit zijn de namen by Tommy WieringaTommy Wieringa is one of the most prominent contemporary Dutch novelists. The novel These are the Names 2012 depicts, on the one hand, a police commissioner’s need for faith in midlife crisis and, on the other, the journey of a group of refugees in the steppe in search for civilisation and salvation. On the edge of existence and without any point of narrative reference, the refugees kill one of them and then sacralise their act. Using a postmodern paradigm, in particular, the psychoanalytic theories and the theory of the scapegoat mechanism developed by René Girard, this paper attempts to show the connection between the lack of narrative and the birth of the ritual, which is later to become a myth. This underlines the dynamic nature of identity and its dependence on various narratives.

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